Albuquerque police said a man admitted to stabbing his wife to death in their home on Persimmon Avenue last Tuesday.

Officers were called to a home on Persimmon Avenue last week to perform a welfare check. When they arrive, police said they found Geraldine Hoffland stabbed to death inside the home.

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Her husband, Larry Hoffland, had self-inflicted injuries. Police said he jumped off a second floor balcony after stabbing his wife to death in a failed attempt to commit suicide, according to the criminal complaint.

The criminal complaint states Hoffland admitted to killing his wife in her sleep. In his interviews with police, they said Hoffland told them "(I) lost my mind" and "I took a kitchen knife to her."

He was arrested and charged with an open count of murder.

Officers came to the home originally because both worked for Southwest Airlines and never showed up for work that morning.